5 Ways to Connect with Your Spirit Guide

We can turn to these guides for support and a little nudge when we need help finding the right direction in life.

Spirit guides mean different things to different people. Examples include ancestors; wise spiritual masters, such as Jesus or Buddha; animal spirits; or benevolent forces like angels. We can turn to these guides for support and a little nudge when we need help finding the right direction in life. For this week’s Healthy Habit, let’s look at ways to connect with your Spirit Guide.

Set your intention. What guidance are you seeking, and why? Some people find that keeping a spirit guide journal allows them to sort through their true intention, and adds to their contemplation before they approach their spirit guide or guides.

Issue an invitation. Invite your spirit guide into your life. This may take the form of meditation, asking for help before sleeping (dreams), prayer, or placing a letter into a special spot.

Let go of expectations. Rebecca Campbell, author at Heal Your Life.com, had a good insight when she wrote of her spirit guides, “I wanted to know their age, their background, their personality, and hair color. I wanted them to pop over for dinner and share a bottle of red.” Then she realized she had to release expectations of how a spirit guide may manifest. Be open to the experience in whatever form it takes. Is it a smell? A sensation? A gut feeling? It probably won’t be Great Aunt Sally’s form in a mist, sitting in your kitchenette and telling you to dump that loser boyfriend. But hey, who knows.

Look for signs. Does a particular song keep showing up in your daily life? Chance encounters with someone you keep running into? Does a book title or certain animal keep coming up? If you’re seeing patterns, perhaps a spirit guide is trying to tell you something. Give it some reflection.

Don’t forget to say thank you. If you feel you’ve received direct help—from angels, ancestors, or spiritual masters—say thanks in the form of prayer or meditation. A nice touch would be a devote an act of kindness or a yoga practice in that guide’s honor, while thinking about the guide.